Winner of the Jury Prize at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival "Shinran: Path to Purity" comes out on DVD. Directed and written by Rentaro Mikuni. This is a story of a Japanese Buddhist monk in the Kamakura period and the founder of Jodo Shinshu (Shin Buddhism) sect in Japan. Shinran says that before Buddha everyone is all equal, but there is a strict social system in his time, and he and his fellow are heavily persecuted. . .